ND Stevensonhas long believed that kids can handle more than what adults often give them.
“It’s something that really stuck with me,” he explains.
“I got really into all the spells that I could do with a warlock.
ND Stevenon, the creator of ‘Nimona,’ talks about his inspirations for EW’s Meet Your Maker.Netflix
One of them was the teleportation spell, the Misty Step.
This Tiefling warlock went on to inspire the creation ofShe-Ra’s teleporting Glimmer, voiced byKaren Fukuhara.
Not Leia Organa or Han Solo, either.
The ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ role-playing game handbook.Simon Hayter/Toronto Star via Getty Images
“I was really compelled by this character,” Stevenson says.
“I just wanted to see more of the shapeshifting.
I wanted to know how far you could go with that.
Natalie Portman in ‘Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones’.Everett Collection
If you could turn into any person, what does that mean?
I think that’s where my love of shapeshifters specifically started.”
It’s not a coincidence that, years later, a shapeshifter is at the center ofNimona.
Tim Gunn in ‘Project Runway’.Everett Collection
But he was allowed to watchProject Runway.
“I think that was the first moment that I understood what being gay was.
“I’ve always loved genre.
Ian McKellen’s Gandalf in ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers’.Everett Collection
“I think you see a lot of that inShe-Ra.”
The film also helped evolve his greater philosophy as a future creator of children’s entertainment.
“The Prince of Egyptwas scary,” he says.
Moses in ‘The Prince of Egypt’.Everett Collection
“It starts out with a massacre of infants, and they don’t shy away from it.
It’s the first thing you see in that movie and it just throws you straight in.
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